Eastern Christian Books

Ottoman imperial history remains utterly fascinating to me, though my interests tend to focus on the sunset of empire rather than, as with t...

Nationalism has long been a besetting problem within Eastern Christianity and attracts regular critical attention today, but it has roots th...

The role of Islam in Turkey has been changing since the turn of this century, after having changed a lot at the turn of the previous century...

My two books in ecclesiology both gave pride of place to the Armenian Church, so I always keep an eye out for new scholarship on Armenia a...

The office of the Roman papacy, of course, attracts huge attention, including from scholars. But the patriarchate of New Rome attracts consi...

I hope there are archives in heaven, and books too, for I do not think I will ever have the time in my remaining years on Earth to acquire t...

I shall greatly look forward to reading this forthcoming book in September upon its release for it sounds like just the sort of work I take ...

Knowing almost nothing about the latest Palestinian-Israeli conflict, I will say nothing beyond noting, as I have in the past on here, that ...

I previously posted a brief notice about this book,  Christians under the Crescent and Muslims under the Cross c.630 - 1923 by Luigi Berto ...

When trying to dissuade some of my more gung-ho American students from their romanticized assumptions that political movements for reform al...

If you read my first book on the papacy , or my book last year on the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, then you will know (with more...

With the tender ministrations of Turkey in other countries and against other ethnic groups again in global headlines, this book, released ju...

Well do I recall reading biographies of David Lloyd George, as well as histories of the Great War and its aftermath, and hearing again how m...

In 2015 I gave several lectures on the centenary of the genocidal massacres of Eastern Christians at Ottoman hands. The best-known of these ...

Almost five years ago now, I noted that we were gearing up for the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War, which was already in 2013 oc...

2017 has been a banner year for publications on some of the lesser known genocides of the last century. (We saw one significant publication ...

It is a longstanding frustration of mine that suitable textbooks for my undergrads are hard to come by when studying the history of relation...

Several times in the past I have on here sung the praises of Gorgias Press in their wide-ranging treatment of many aspects of Eastern Christ...

I have previously commented on several recent histories of the Ottoman Empire in monograph form. Now we have a paperback version of a collec...

This summer, I discussed a recent and quite splendid study of the sunset of the Ottoman Empire in the context of and as a result of the Fir...